Posted on 03/08/2015 8:37:15 AM PDT by Gamecock
While I haven’t said this around these parts in a while, I think a big part of the problem is hiding kids away in youth group rather than bringing them into the full life of the church.
The reasons given are a concern that they need something they can understand. Turns out youthngroups tend to be fun driven, rather than something serious. Young folks leave looking for just that,
(sigh) How long, O, Lord?
Meanwhile, Islam advances.
Hey if the Baptist catechism isn’t deep enough, the Catholic one is deeper, but the Jewish one is deeper than that. People will ask questions, and the Holy Spirit will lead.
“He remembers ... wishing his church had pictures.”
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it.
The Catholic Charities organization is focused on open borders. That should give some pause however the Evangelicals are also tied up in the “interfaith” movement thereby aiding civilizational jihad.
Something is wrong with so called Christian churches; i.e. Social Institutions rather than religious, money ‘grubbing,’trying to be trendy, immoral(sodomy advocates), many are baby killers. People are leaving the so called churches in droves. Lastly, there are historical factors these are secular times and people will not have restraints put upon their behavior. People are lost as the people in the article demonstrate-changing religions. Soon they will convert to Islam, Shinto, Tao or whatever.
In my opinion, this is a poor title. In fact, it is offensive. ‘Baptists, do a better job so our kids don’t stray’.
If those men left the Baptist church for the Anglican Prayer Book and liturgy, or to the Catholic Church with its Mass, I don’t think they did it for entertainment, as you seem to imply. I don’t think anyone seeking entertainment would want to study a catechism and take classes. If they sought entertainment, they would have joined some non-denomiational “evangelical” church that has for its service a Christian rock concert with a sermon thrown in. Some people are happy with what the more radical Reformers left us, others see it as a truncated form of Christianity that has some important parts downplayed or missing.
We recently attended my cousin’s son’s baptism at a Baptist church. When we walked in a woman walked over and pointed the way to the nursery. I thanked her and continued on with my husband and our kids. The woman followed, tapped on my shoulder, and told me all kids three and under go to the nursery. Instead of leaving my daughters with strangers my husband stood with them in the vestibule where they behaved like angels. Church lady didn’t like that. Apparently this is the new “thing”, which is terribly sad. They start hiding the kids in nurseries first, then youth groups later. I was raised in a Baptist church and I was expected to sit quietly in church not run around a supervised room; however, in my teen years the youth group became the new “thing.” It was a way to make us feel cool for going to church and therefore bring more sheep to the flock.
“article headlined “When We Leave One Religion for Another: How two brothers, raised Baptist, found their way to two different faiths”
This premise is a lie.
They did not change religion or faith.
They are Christians and never changed.
I agree. I've said it before and I'll say it again. "These individuals are arguing about how many pebbles are on the beach and failing to see the beautiful sun on the horizon that is God".
I'm a poor excuse for a Catholic and hope that I'm in good grace when I pass and that the Lord will somehow find me to be worthy to enter his kingdom. I find myself in a trap that the harder I try not to sin, the more things I find wrong with my life and how I live. Push one fault down and then pride, hypocrisy, lust, theft, hatred, disrespect to parent, loss of temper with loved ones and on and on and all I can do is try to do better but fail again everyday.
I can't see how all these people find time to worry about whether others are on the right path or doing the right thing, when I'm so busy trying to keep my family and my boat on the right path.
That is truly sad that pictures are more important than hearing the Word of God. I can remember going to small country churches as a kid and none had pictures. None were ac and one had a wood heater for heat. We did not mind. People today think their comfort and pictures are important. I often think of my parents as kids going in a wagon to church. My mom use to tell us that by the time they got home from the morning service, it was time to eat, do the farm chores and go back to church. That was true dedication.
I agree: they followed their own paths to Christ. Implying that they were somehow wrong for picking their own paths is strange, devisive and not Christian.
Remember that Jesus said “love one another as I have loved you”.
No need to apportion blame. What is past is past.
The question is how do you change things to get better results. In fact, the first question is, what results are desired.
I didn’t say that, now did I?
i am confused..
is this guy saying that catholics are not christians??
does not that make him a bigot, not unlike the KKK?
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